This is one of our favorite recurring date ideas as a couple. Guessing “who done it?” with murder mystery theater can be a really fun date idea you can often do again and again over the course of a long relationship (with different stories each time because the theater troupes that do these kinds of shows regularly change the show so as to have a mystery that appeals to the same people who previously saw the last show.) And who knows, you might even be good enough at it to win! -- Mr. and Mrs. Cubic Zirconia

Planning a wedding can be stressful! Protect your sanity and pursue plenty of leisure time activities. If you’re gonna relax and watch a movie -- alone or with your future spouse-- why not pick one of these 33 movies curated by CubicZirconia.com and get a little wedding planning inspiration along with your vegetative entertainment? Quality time together is especially important if either of you has snapped at each other recently. If it’s getting too hot in here, let’s lower the thermostat with a few silver screen laughs.

Do you cook together with your significant other? Cooking can be a chore.  It can be a chore, too for couples cooking together…or it can be great quality time-- a cheap, easy, simple and relaxing couples’ hobby to reconnect after some time apart. Cooking together regularly with my wife is one of my greatest pleasures.  With the right ingredients, cooking together is a recipe not just for tasty food but for a stronger relationship, too.  Here’s what Mrs. Cubic Zirconia and I think are the ingredients to doing it right.

Plenty of parents teach their children the importance of brushing their teeth, how to cook a pot roast or that they must look both ways before crossing the street. Yet parents of previous generations didn’t teach their kids much about: how to have a healthy sex life how to deal with interpersonal conflict in the home how to handle change. If your experience was anything like ours, your parents did a shitty job preparing you for marriage.Here are 3 things your parents probably didn’t tell you about marriage, either: Thing 1: Diplomacy or Divorce (Get Ready to Negotiate) Thing 2: Sex Is Fun…Usually Thing 3: Everything Changes (So Will You, Your Spouse, and Your Marriage) Let’s not blame too much, ok? It’s unlikely whomever raised you learned these things from whomever raised them either.

Building a home together– while it may be super stressful– can also be one of the most fun couple’s activities in a lifetime of life, love and laughter. If you’re currently building a house, this 10-step blueprint might give you some tips. But more importantly…if you’re married, reading today’s post showing how building a house is like building a marriage could help strengthen your relationship. And if you’re married AND building a house together with your significant other... God help you ('cuz that ish can be stressful).